While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...
On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 has taken a significant leap toward the Moon, with its successful second engine burn ...
Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Meanwhile, ...
A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...
One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch ...
Texas-based Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission, featuring the company’s first lunar lander, is on its way to an ancient volcanic structure with a Lunar PlanetVac to collect soil samples. Meanwhile ...
Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...
"The mission is now in the hands of the unstoppable Firefly team." This is the first lunar lander built by Firefly, which got its start in the rocket business. Firefly launches its own small-class ...
It's take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar dirt for study and plans to test ...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on the way to the moon aboard a commercial lunar lander launched earlier Wednesday. The ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A with a payload of a pair of lunar landers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux) ...